A compassionate guide to the experience of loss as an essential growth process

• Explores the nature of loss as a profound mystery shared by all human beings

• Offers sensitive and practical advice for experiencing grief and preparing for the healing journey that follows

• Includes CD of the author reading selections from the text

We grieve only for that which we have loved, and the transient nature of life makes love and loss intimate companions. In Good Grief professional grief educator Deborah Morris Coryell describes grief as the experience of not having anywhere to place our love, of losing a connection, an outlet for our emotion. To heal grief we have to learn how to continue to love in the face of loss.

In this compassionate guide, Coryell gives inspiring examples of how embracing our losses allows us to awaken our most profound connections to other people. Though our society tends to rank losses in a “hierarchy of grief,” she reminds us that all losses must be grieved in their own right and on their own terms, and that we must honor the “small” losses as well as the “big” ones. Paying attention to even the most minute experiences of loss can help us to be more in tune with our responses to the greater ones, allowing us to once again become part of the rhythm of life from which we have become disconnected. This 10th anniversary edition includes a 60-minute CD of the author reading select passages from the text....

Una guía compasiva sobre la experiencia de pérdida como proceso esencial de crecimiento

• Examina el fenómeno de la pérdida como un hondo misterio que compartimos todos los seres humanos

• Ofrece consejos sensatos y prácticos sobre la experiencia del duelo y cómo prepararse para el proceso de recuperación que sigue a esa experiencia

En esta guía llena de compasión, Deborah Morris Coryell, experta en asuntos relacionados con el duelo, describe esta aflicción como una experiencia en la que carecemos de un lugar donde colocar nuestro amor. Nos recuerda que todas las pérdidas deben pasar por un proceso de duelo y que el hecho de prestar atención a toda experiencia de pérdida, por ínfima que sea, nos puede ayudar a ponernos en sintonía con nosotros mismos, pues nos da la oportunidad de integrarnos una vez más en el ritmo de la vida, del que nos hemos desconectado.

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